Practical Italian Grammar

34 ITALIAN GRAMMAB

9. What language do we speak? 10. —We speak English,

11. Today I prefer to speak Italian in order to learn this language.

12, I begin to (a) understand. 13. Many pupils (Jem.) understand.
14. John, are these pencils green? 15. —The pencils are green,
and the book also is green.

D. 1. The professor begins the lesson. 2. He opens the book
and reads. 3. Then the pupils read. 4. John, what are you
listening to? 5. —I am listening to the reading of a story.
6. Mary and Helen, are you also listening? 7. They listen and
understand. 8. Charles finishes the story. 9. He finishes it.
10. Arthur cleans the blackboard. 11. The professor gives (to)
Arthur a piece of chalk, and Arthur writes. 12, He writes today's
lesson. 13. Mary, do you understand this rule? 14. We under-
stand the rule and leani the exceptions. 15. The professor shows
the mistake to Arthur. 16. Albert and the other pupils look at
the blackboard in order to learn. 17. They are /ery diligent.
18. Mary gives the exercise book to John. 19. John receives the
exercise book from Mary. 20. The bell rings, and the lesson ends.

LESSON VI
33. Negative Sentences
EgH nan capisce. He does not understand.
Kon ha HbrL He hasn't any books.
Kon ha nessun libro. He hasn't any book.
Hon. pario con nessuno. , I speak with nobody.
Kon scrmamo nisnte. We do not write anything.
Egli non ascolta mai. He never listens.
1. A verb Is made negative by placing non before it.
2. The English any, ^e& followed by a plural word in a
^egatlve sentence, is not translated; when followed by a
singular word, that may take a numerical modifier, it is usu-
ally rendered by nessuno, which takes the same endings as
the indefinite article (nessun, nessuno, nessnaa, nessun'). As